Portrait

Jacques Faraut is Professeur Emerite in the Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.

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"The main themes are carefully explained and illustrated by well-chosen examples. He succeeds in putting a remarkable wealth of material into a 300-page book which will certainly serve as a basis for many courses on the subject." Joachim Hilgert, Mathematical Reviews